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Whatever happened to the two-door car?
  + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
There are still two-door cars today, of course, but they’re almost all high-performance sports cars not intended for comfortable cruising. For car designers, two-door models can offer more striking proportions to play with, long hoods that evoke power and tapered, aerodynamic back ends. Today, it’s rare to see a two-door car that isn’t a performance model like the Mustang or Corvette. Today, if you have a two-door car and you have kids, you also have a backache. While some two-door cars used to be bargain items – the cheapest entry-level cars were almost always two-door hatchbacks – today two-door models are seen mostly in European luxury car showrooms.
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Rick Steiner , 65, a retired engineer living in Tucson, Ariz., on his 1955 Ford Thunderbird, as told to A.J. My grandmother was a World War II Gold Star wife. What that means is, she was the wife of a soldier killed while serving his country. My grandmother raised four children and put them all through college, through engineering school, law school, dental school and nursing school. When she finally got her last child through school, she bought this 1955 Thunderbird, which was a shock to everybody.
Why your car's speedometer goes up to 160 mph
  + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Matt Mcfarland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
It displayed a classically-styled speedometer that reached 160 mph, an auto industry norm. As early as the 1920s, cars could be purchased with speedometers going as high as 120 mph, according to Bruce Woolsey, president of Michigan-based auto parts supplier Bob’s Speedometer. The first 160 mph speedometer he’s aware of was in the Cunningham C-3 from the 1950s. Apple Carplay's speedometer includes a 160 mph speed limit in one version. AppleFollowing Claybrook, auto safety leaders have turned to other tactics to address speeding.
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